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Re:A supercomputer at home by biohacker42 on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @11:01AM (#246700)
Supercomputers at home will be common soon. Intel is going the road of multi-core, I'm typing this on a machine with two 4 core CPUs. Soon we'll have not just 8 but 16 and then 64, etc, cores in a sub $2K machine you can buy from Dell or HP or who ever.
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Re:A supercomputer at home by MaysonL on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @07:23PM (#247168)
Well, for a few grand, you can get a TeraOPS development board with a 336 core chip from Ambric. The chip at the heart of it is only a couple hundred (quantity 1000).
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Re:A supercomputer at home by gaius on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @12:34PM (#246800)
Arguably supercomputers at home are common, and have been for years. How does your machine stack up against a Cray Y-MP?

(That Cray got 330 megaflops/core, Macs are peaking at around 1400 - each with 8).

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Re:A supercomputer at home by wmf on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @05:37PM (#247109)
The term "supercomputer" becomes meaningless unless its definition is periodically revised. IMO these days you need over 1 TFLOPS to quality.
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